Dimitry Seluk is a name that does the rounds in the English footballing circle almost every year. It is a name that fans of Manchester City dread to hear. Pep Guardiola’s longtime inability to win the Champions League trophy with City has highlighted Seluk again. The football agent is mostly remembered in the context of the famous tirade he launched against Guardiola back in 2018, which reads,
“God sees everything. As a man who acted with Yaya, the legend of the club, which under different pretexts did not give the opportunity to go on the field. He turned all Africa against himself, many African fans turned away from Manchester City. And I’m sure that many African shamans in the future will not allow Guardiola to win the Champions League. This will be for Guardiola an African curse. Life will show whether I am right or not.”
The “African curse” has been brought into conversation every time City have failed in Europe under Guardiola. However, very little is known about Seluk himself apart from being a controversial agent. So, who is this charismatic personality who has seemingly “cursed” a whole club’s fortunes?
Yaya Toure, like “his son”
The paths of Dimitry Seluk and Yaya Toure crossed in 2003 when the player was looking to move to Metalurh Donetsk. He was playing in Belgium, and Seluk offered his services, being very familiar with the landscape in Ukraine. Thus, a player-agent relationship formed that lasted for almost two decades. Seluk was instrumental in Toure moving from the backwaters of Greece and Ukraine to Barcelona in 2007.
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The Ivorian midfielder would end up winning all possible trophies on offer. Seluk was instrumental in Toure making the next pivotal career move in 2010. As the agent recounted to These Football Times,
“Yaya, City is a new challenge for you. It’s a new project. Chelsea are the champions but you’ve already won everything…
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